The big cities have been covered and the roll-out in tier-II towns has begun. The aim is to reach out to 1,100 women by the end of 2013
Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business is focusing on building emerging market competencies to differentiate from others.
Wary of the policing by the All India Council for Technical Education -- the body that regulates technical education in the country -- more and more management schools are going the Indian School of Business way, opting for one-year management programmes and registering themselves as private limited entities under the Companies Act, 1956.
At the convocation ceremony at ISB Hyderabad, the Wipro founder appealed graduates to aim for hardwork, perseverance and honesty.
The $130-million world class premier Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, a brain child of Rajat Gupta, was nurtured by him and his other colleagues in McKinsey through the nineties and the last decade.
Indian startups have raised $42 billion in 2021, up from $11.5 billion in the previous year, a report by Orios Venture Partners said. The report titled 'The Indian Tech Unicorn Report 2021' said India saw 46 unicorns (companies with $1 billion valuations) in 2021 alone, more than doubling the total number of unicorns to 90. These include ShareChat, Cred, Meesho, Nazara, Moglix, MPL, Grofers (now Blinkit), upGrad, Mamaearth, GlobalBees, Acko, Spinny and others. India - with 90 unicorns - is the third-largest unicorn hub behind the US (487) and China (301), and ahead of the UK (39).
Sateesh Andra, co-convenor, Tie-ISB, talks to Shobha Warrier about growth, entrepreneurship and the need to look at new business directions.
Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business says it plans to provide graduates from other B-schools guidance and financial support for interesting entrepreneurial ideas as part of its strategy of finding and grooming entrepreneurs.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), has emerged as the Indian company having the most international exposure for the second consecutive year, says a survey.
The move came days after he chaired a controversial board meeting mid-December that cleared Satyam's acquisition of two companies -- Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties -- linked to the family of the IT firm's founder and chairman B Ramalinga Raju. On December 29, Rao also resigned from the Satyam board.
While some have to go through the grind, others taste success in their brief stint.
ISB students were invited to ring closing bell at Nasdaq.
The 15-month course at ISB is meant for senior executives who were being groomed by their organisations to move into leadership roles.
Kriti Mehra (ISB Class of 2010) shares her experience of meeting Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CEO of Biocon.
Ajay Lakhotia, an ISB student, shares his experience of spending the day with former managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank KV Kamath and the management lessons that this young MBA grad has learnt from the banking veteran.
The placement season has been extended for the batch till June as part of its rolling placement system to give more time for companies and students to find the right match.
A maximum of 74 such institutions have been identified in Maharashtra followed by 24 in Delhi, 22 in Karnataka, 19 in Tamil Nadu and 13 each in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
The Centre is being set up in collaboration with Richard Ivey School of Business (Ivey), The University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Dean of ISB, M Rammohan Rao on ISB's new programmes, their unique selling proposition, placement programme, their recently launched pre-doctoral programme and dearth of quality faculty crunch faced by Indian management schools.
A student of IIM, Ahmedabad, said: "Usually most students from IIMs get good job offers. They move on to even better ones within six months' time. But in the current meltdown scenario, many students have seen a dearth of good offers and taken up whatever average jobs offered. There is a feeling of insecurity and dissatisfaction, which has prompted most to rely on job portals like naukri.com, iimjobs.com and others and given the hope of procuring better offers."
Another Indian School of Business (ISB) is taking shape. Rajat Gupta, the former CEO of McKinsey & Company and now a senior partner in the professional services firm, along with his team is planning to set up a second ISB, this time in the North. The existing ISB in Hyderabad was Gupta's brainchild and is among India's most coveted business schools. It is spread over 260 acres of land and was set up in December 1999 at a cost of around Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion).
The conference will discuss issues and solutions to the unique challenges common to family businesses
The Indian School of Business, ranked in the top 12 global B-schools by the Financial Times, has increased its tuition fee to Rs 15.3 lakh per annum -- Rs 80,000 more than Rs 14.5 lakh it charged last year. The non-refundable fee remained at Rs 2 lakh.
Corporations and temples have a lot in common, believes Keisuke Matsumoto, a student at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.
The Indian School of Business said placements this year were better compared to the 2009 batch.
Rashmi Bansal Returns to Rediff.com! The author of bestsellers like Stay Hungry Stay Foolish and Connect the Dots explains why MBAs should be looked upon as long-term investments.
Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) K V Subramanian will be leaving the finance ministry and returning to academia on completion of his three-year term. The government had appointed Subramanian, an ISB Hyderabad professor, as the CEA in December 2018. He had succeeded Arvind Subramanian, who quit the position close to a year ahead of his extended tenure. Subramanian's three-year term would have come up for renewal in December but he decided to return to academia.
The ongoing placement season at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad is seeing some undercurrents of slowdown and recession.
TiE-ISB Connect 2009 plans to bring together both the first-time and seasoned entrepreneurs with the investment community so that they can explore the opportunities and challenges in the current economic times.
Ram Mohan, an engineer and an IIM-A graduate has dabbled in investment, stock broking, entrepreneurship, media till he turned a film producer with Ashta Chamma.
ISB's Director - Admissions & Financial aid, RANGA RAO I V, fielded readers' questions on MBA studies and the ISB course on December 24. The transcript.
The Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad, is launching a two-year pre-doctoral programme free of charge for young Indian researchers who want to study for a doctoral degree at a top US or European business school.
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